{"id":36908,"date":"2013-01-22T19:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/austin_texas_church_will_offer_episcopal_same-sex_blessing\/"},"modified":"2013-01-22T19:00:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T19:00:37","slug":"austin_texas_church_will_offer_episcopal_same-sex_blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36908","title":{"rendered":"Austin, Texas, church will offer Episcopal same-sex blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. David\u2019s Episcopal Church in Austin will bless a same-sex couple next month, possibly becoming the first Episcopal church in Texas to perform the groundbreaking liturgical rite&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Texas does not recognize same-sex unions, and the Episcopal Church stressed that the new rite does not \u201ccreate or solemnize\u201d\u009d any marriage, civil union or legal relationship.<br \/>\nEpiscopal churches must request permission from the bishop and then complete a study program to offer same-sex blessings, according to Carol Barnwell, a spokeswoman for the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.<br \/>\nBarnwell said the bishop authorized St. David\u2019s and St. Stephen\u2019s to first offer the rite to see what the church could learn about improving the process through their experiences. She said she expected only about a handful of Episcopal churches, out of 153 in the diocese, will request permission to perform the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/news\/local\/austin-church-will-offer-episcopal-same-sex-blessi\/nT2Xn\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. David\u2019s Episcopal Church in Austin will bless a same-sex couple next month, possibly becoming the first Episcopal church in Texas to perform the groundbreaking liturgical rite&#8230;. Texas does not recognize same-sex unions, and the Episcopal Church stressed that the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36908\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,576,175,66,168,183,184,112,372,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-sexuality","category-tec-bishops","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}